Patents Examined by James R Greece
  • Patent number: 11747654
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating data to produce a spectacle lens adapted to a spectacle frame is disclosed. The method includes: (i) providing, on a storage medium, a first data set containing a centering value and a three-dimensional model of the spectacle frame; (ii) creating, using the first data set, a second data set containing a geometric value of a surface of the spectacle lens; (iii) creating, in order to produce the spectacle lens from a spectacle lens blank and to grind in and/or fit the at least one spectacle lens into the spectacle frame using the first and second data sets, a third data set stored on the storage medium, wherein the data values of each data set have a spatial relationship with respect to each other such that the data values of each data set are consistently specified in relation to a particular coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Meschenmoser, Friedrich Pauker, Gerhard Kelch
  • Patent number: 11740442
    Abstract: A zoom optical system comprises, in order from an object: a front lens group (GFS) having a positive refractive power; an M1 lens group (GM1) having a negative refractive power; an M2 lens group (GM2) having a positive refractive power; and an RN lens group (GRN) having a negative refractive power, wherein upon zooming, distances between the front lens group and the M1 lens group, between the M1 lens group and the M2 lens group, and between the M2 lens group and the RN lens group change, upon focusing from an infinite distant object to a short distant object, the RN lens group moves, and the M2 lens group comprises an A lens group that satisfies a following conditional expression, 1.10<fvr/fTM2<2.00, where, fvr: a focal length of the A lens group, and fTM2: a focal length of the M2 lens group in a telephoto end state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Machida
  • Patent number: 11733545
    Abstract: An opto-electronic module is configured to fit between anterior and posterior surfaces of a contact lens. The opto-electronics module may comprise a plurality of light sources configured to direct a plurality of light beams to a region of the retina away from the fovea and in some embodiments away from the macula. Each of the plurality of light sources may comprises an LED and one or more projection optics. Each of the projection optics can be coupled to an LED with an adhesive prior to placing the opto-electronics module on a layer of contact lens material. The opto-electronics module may comprise a flex PCB with the plurality of light sources, an antenna, a battery, a capacitor and a processor supported on the flex PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Ryo Kubota, Jean-Noël Fehr, Hans Bernhard, Patrizia Weber, Alain Saurer, Amitava Gupta
  • Patent number: 11726302
    Abstract: An optical imaging system for pickup, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with refractive power, the third lens element with refractive power, the fourth lens element with refractive power, the fifth lens element with refractive power; the sixth lens element made of plastic, the sixth lens with refractive power having a concave image-side surface with both being aspheric, and the image-side surface having at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11714266
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a projection lens, which sequentially includes a first lens, a second lens and a third lens from an image source side to an imaging side along an optical axis. The first lens has a positive refractive power, and a surface near the image source side thereof is a convex surface. The second lens has a positive refractive power or negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive refractive power is a meniscus lens of which a surface near the imaging side is a convex surface. An image source height ImgH of the projection lens and a total effective focal length f of the projection lens meet ImgH/f<0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL, CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xinquan Wang, Lin Huang
  • Patent number: 11712160
    Abstract: Predicting a non perfusion area. An enhancement image processing section performs enhancement image processing on a fundus image of a subject eye to enhance vascular portions (304). A prediction processing section predicts a non perfusion area in the fundus image that has been subjected to the enhancement image processing (306 to 312). A generation section generates a non perfusion area candidate image (314).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Hirokawa, Yasushi Tanabe, Tomoharu Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11701315
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ophthalmic and non-ophthalmic systems with blue light filtering and Yellowness Index ranges. UV and IR filtering are also included. Industrial applications are also outlined in the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: High Performance Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Ishak, Sean P. McGinnis, Ronald D. Blum, Michael B. Packard
  • Patent number: 11693257
    Abstract: A ophthalmic lens for inhibiting progression of myopia includes a central zone and an annular zone. The annular zone includes subsurface optical elements formed via laser-induced changes in refractive index of a material forming the annular zone. The subsurface optical elements are configured to modify distribution of light to the peripheral retina of a user so as to inhibit progression of myopia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Clerio Vision, Inc.
    Inventor: Leonard Zheleznyak
  • Patent number: 11684469
    Abstract: A method and system provide a multifocal ophthalmic device. The ophthalmic lens has an anterior surface, a posterior surface and at least one diffractive structure including a plurality of echelettes. The echelettes have at least one step height of at least one wavelength and not more than two wavelengths in optical path length. The diffractive structure(s) reside on at least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface. The diffractive structure(s) provide a plurality of focal lengths for the ophthalmic lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Myoung-Taek Choi, Xin Hong, Yueai Liu
  • Patent number: 11681163
    Abstract: A pair of progressive power lenses and related techniques thereof are provided, wherein a power distribution on a horizontal cross-section of the right eye lens has a peak at a position that is away from a main gaze line, and a power distribution on a horizontal cross-section of the left eye lens has a peak at a position that is away from a main gaze line in a direction opposite to that of the right eye lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Sonehara, Ayumu Ito
  • Patent number: 11668899
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object along an optical axis: a first lens group having a negative refractive power; a second lens group having a positive refractive power; a third lens group having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens group; and a fifth lens group. When the zoom lens performs varying magnification, the distance between the first and second lens groups changes, the distance between the second and third lens groups changes, the distance between the third and fourth lens groups changes, the distance between the fourth and fifth lens groups changes, the second and fourth lens groups move along the same trajectory along the optical axis, and at least the third lens group moves along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Umeda
  • Patent number: 11662606
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an orthokeratology lens which may comprise an inner surface facing a cornea of a human eye when the orthokeratology lens is worn and an outer surface opposite the inner surface, the inner surface comprising a centrally located base are zone, wherein the base arc zone is configured for pressing and shaping an anterior surface of the cornea to have a shape that conforms to the base are zone, wherein the base arc zone comprises two or more regions, at least two of the two or more regions having different radii of curvature. The present disclosure also relates to a method for making orthokeratology lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: EYEBRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhao Wang, Jiangbing Xie
  • Patent number: 11656433
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having refractive power; a second lens having refractive power; and a third lens having refractive power. A center thickness CT1 of the first lens along the optical axis and a maximum effective radius DT11 of an object-side surface of the first lens satisfy: 1.0<CT1/DT11<2.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaobin Zhang, Jianke Wenren, Liefeng Zhao, Fujian Dai
  • Patent number: 11656438
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth lens elements, each having an object-side surface facing toward an object side and an image-side surface facing toward an image side. The image-side surface of the first lens element includes a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the first lens element. The optical imaging lens as a whole has only the six lens elements having refractive power. The ratio between the f-number of the optical imaging lens and thicknesses of the lens elements satisfies certain relations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih Han Chen, Hung Chien Hsieh, Long Ye
  • Patent number: 11650399
    Abstract: The application discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side, a first lens with a positive refractive power and a concave image side surface; a second lens with a negative refractive power and a convex object side surface; a third lens with a refractive power and a convex image side surface; a fourth lens with a negative refractive power and a concave object side surface; a fifth lens with a positive refractive power and a convex image side surface; a sixth lens with a refractive power; and a seventh lens with a negative refractive power, wherein an effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly, an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the optical imaging lens assembly and a space interval T67 between the sixth lens and the seventh lens satisfy f/EPD?1.80, and 5.5<f/T67<11.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventors: Lihui Ye, Ming Li
  • Patent number: 11650394
    Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing comprising a plurality of protrusions arranged on the upper surface thereof; a magnet arranged on a side portion of the housing; a bobbin having a first coil arranged on the outer peripheral surface thereof, the bobbin being configured to move by means of an interaction between the magnet and the first coil; an upper elastic member coupled to the bobbin and to the housing; and a sensing coil arranged on the side portion of the housing between the protrusions and the magnet, the sensing coil being configured to generate an induction voltage by means of an interaction with the first coil, wherein at least a part of the upper elastic member is arranged on the upper surface of the housing between the protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Taek Shin, Jin Suk Han
  • Patent number: 11644642
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging surface of an image sensor, wherein a conditional expression f/f2+f/f3<?0.4 is satisfied, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, and f3 is a focal length of the third lens, and a conditional expression TTL/(2*IMG HT)<0.69 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging surface of the image sensor, and IMG HT is one-half of a diagonal length of the imaging surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Jae Hyun Baik, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11644687
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating and/or manufacturing progressive lenses (e.g., bifocal, multifocal, and so on) having ocular side (e.g., back side or surface) lens segments, are described. For example, the systems and methods may apply round lens segments to ocular sides or surfaces of progressive lenses, providing the lenses with specializing vision lens segments and/or power enhancement lens segments, which may combine with front surface power additions provided by the multifocal lens segments applied to the front surfaces of the lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Digital Vision, Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon Keane
  • Patent number: 11644689
    Abstract: An ophthalmic tinted lens has a visual transmission value TV for quantifying a first light intensity ratio which relates to light effective for human vision and transmitted through the lens in daylight condition, and also has a value of a chronobiological factor FC for quantifying a second light amount ratio which relates to light effective for a non-visual physiological effect and also transmitted through the lens in daylight condition. The TV-value and the FC-value expressed as percentage values meet the following condition: FC>1.1×TV+13.0 with 3%?TV?43%, or FC>0.7×TV+32 with 43%<TV?92%, for the ophthalmic tinted lens to combine solar protection and maintenance of circadian rhythms and better pupil constriction which are based on the non-visual physiological effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Coralie Barrau, Montserrat Burgos, Natalia Schianchi
  • Patent number: 11644361
    Abstract: Eyewear having monitoring capability, such as for radiation or motion, is disclosed. Radiation, such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation, infrared (IR) radiation or light, can be measured by a detector. The measured radiation can then be used in providing radiation-related information to a user of the eyewear. Motion can be measure by a detector, and the measured motion can be used to determine whether the eyewear is being worn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: IngenioSpec, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Howell, David Chao, C. Douglass Thomas, Peter P. Tong